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In 2003, Fischermann et al. considered the maximum size of \textit{uniquely-dominatable} graphs, graphs whose dominating number is realized only by a unique dominating set. They conjectured a size bound and provide a general graph…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2025-11-04 Garrison Koch , Darren Narayan

We study the connection between the degree sequence of a $k$-uniform hypergraph and the size of its largest matching. Let $\mathcal{F}$ be a $k$-uniform hypergraph on $n$ vertices and let $d_1 \ge d_2 \ge \dots \ge d_n$ be the vertex…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2026-05-28 Haixiang Zhang , Mengyu Cao , Mei Lu

A \emph{2-matching} in an undirected graph $G = (VG, EG)$ is a function $f \colon EG \to \set{0,1,2}$ such that for each node $v \in VG$ the sum of values $f(e)$ on all edges $e$ incident to $v$ does not exceed~2. The \emph{size} of $f$ is…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2015-03-13 Maxim Babenko , Alexey Gusakov , Ilya Razenshteyn

We give a combinatorial polynomial-time algorithm to find a maximum weight independent set in perfect graphs of bounded degree that do not contain a prism or a hole of length four as an induced subgraph. An even pair in a graph is a pair of…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2024-01-09 Tara Abrishami , Maria Chudnovsky , Cemil Dibek , Kristina Vušković

We give an upper bound on the number of perfect matchings in simple graphs with a given number of vertices and edges. We apply this result to give an upper bound on the number of 2-factors in a directed complete bipartite balanced graph on…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2014-08-01 M. Aaghabali , S. Akbari , S. Friedland , K. Markstrom , Z. Tajfirouz

The (Perfect) Matching Cut problem is to decide if a graph $G$ has a (perfect) matching cut, i.e., a (perfect) matching that is also an edge cut of $G$. Both Matching Cut and Perfect Matching Cut are known to be NP-complete. A perfect…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2024-06-13 Felicia Lucke , Daniël Paulusma , Bernard Ries

Given a multi-hypergraph $G$ that is edge-colored into color classes $E_1, \ldots, E_n$, a full rainbow matching is a matching of $G$ that contains exactly one edge from each color class $E_i$. One way to guarantee the existence of a full…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2025-12-19 Ronen Wdowinski

For a fixed graph $F$, let $ex_F(G)$ denote the size of the largest $F$-free subgraph of $G$. Computing or estimating $ex_F(G)$ for various pairs $F,G$ is one of the central problems in extremal combinatorics. It is thus natural to ask how…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2025-02-11 Lior Gishboliner , Yevgeny Levanzov , Asaf Shapira

Let $Y_{3,2}$ be the 3-graph with two edges intersecting in two vertices. We prove that every 3-graph $ H $ on $ n $ vertices with at least $ \max \left \{ \binom{4\alpha n}{3}, \binom{n}{3}-\binom{n-\alpha n}{3} \right \}+o(n^3) $ edges…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2024-04-16 Jie Han , Lin Sun , Guanghui Wang

Let $\mathcal{F}$ be an $r$-uniform hypergraph and $G$ be a multigraph. The hypergraph $\mathcal{F}$ is a Berge-$G$ if there is a bijection $f: E(G) \rightarrow E( \mathcal{F} )$ such that $e \subseteq f(e)$ for each $e \in E(G)$. Given a…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2017-05-16 Craig Timmons

Let $\Gamma$ denote a distance-regular graph. The maximum size of codewords with minimum distance at least $d$ is denoted by $A(\Gamma,d)$. Let $\square_n$ denote the folded $n$-cube $H(n,2)$. We give an upper bound on $A(\square_n,d)$…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2018-01-23 Lihang Hou , Bo Hou , Suogang Gao , Wei-Hsuan Yu

Let G be a bridgeless cubic graph. A well-known conjecture of Berge and Fulkerson can be stated as follows: there exist five perfect matchings of G such that each edge of G is contained in at least one of them. Here, we prove that in each…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2013-06-06 Giuseppe Mazzuoccolo

The \emph{Tur\'an function} $\ex(n,F)$ of a graph $F$ is the maximum number of edges in an $F$-free graph with $n$ vertices. The classical results of Tur\'an and Rademacher from 1941 led to the study of supersaturated graphs where the key…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2016-11-08 Oleg Pikhurko , Zelealem B. Yilma

In this paper we develop a framework to study observability for uniform hypergraphs. Hypergraphs, being extensions of graphs, allow edges to connect multiple nodes and unambiguously represent multi-way relationships which are ubiquitous in…

Dynamical Systems · Mathematics 2023-09-19 Joshua Pickard , Amit Surana , Anthony Bloch , Indika Rajapakse

The following very natural problem was raised by Chung and Erd\H{o}s in the early 80's and has since been repeated a number of times. What is the minimum of the Tur\'an number $\text{ex}(n,\mathcal{H})$ among all $r$-graphs $\mathcal{H}$…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2020-12-01 M. Bucić , N. Draganić , B. Sudakov , T. Tran

Asymptotic properties of random regular graphs are object of extensive study in mathematics. In this note we argue, based on theory of spin glasses, that in random regular graphs the maximum cut size asymptotically equals the number of…

Disordered Systems and Neural Networks · Physics 2010-02-25 Lenka Zdeborová , Stefan Boettcher

Let $\mathcal{F}$ be a family of $k$-sized subsets of $[n]$ that does not contain $s$ pairwise disjoint subsets. The Erd\H{o}s Matching Conjecture, a celebrated and long-standing open problem in extremal combinatorics, asserts the maximum…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2026-03-11 Tapas Kumar Mishra

In the edge-2star model with hard constraints we prove the existence of an open set of constraint parameters, bisected by a line segment on which there are nonunique entropy-optimal graphons related by a symmetry. At each point in the open…

Probability · Mathematics 2026-01-26 Charles Radin , Lorenzo Sadun

The spectrum of a graph is closely related to many graph parameters. In particular, the spectral gap of a regular graph which is the difference between its valency and second eigenvalue, is widely seen an algebraic measure of connectivity…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2022-04-06 Sebastian M. Cioabă , Jack H. Koolen , Masato Mimura , Hiroshi Nozaki , Takayuki Okuda

Many well-studied problems in extremal combinatorics deal with the maximum possible size of a family of objects in which every pair of objects satisfies a given restriction. One problem of this type was recently raised by Alon, Gujgiczer,…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2023-12-12 Lior Gishboliner , Zhihan Jin , Benny Sudakov